On October 10th at 1:30 p.m. in HSSB 6020, Janette Kim, Assistant Professor of architecture and Director of the Urban Works Agency at California College of the Arts, will give a talk called “Daylighting Conflict: Board Games as Decision-Making Tools.” She will discuss Win-Win, a series of board games that play out climate risk scenarios and model the social justice implications of innovative financial and legal strategies. Equally important, they model the space of cities, offering unique ideas about the built environment in direct relationship to such dynamics. Together, these two interpretations of a ‘model’ serve as a new kind of decision-making tool—one that imagines new relationships among economies, publics and architectural design.

The event is sponsored by the Environmental Justice & Climate Justice Research Hub of the Orfalea Center for Global & International Studies and the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center Parameters of Play Research Focus Group.